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Kagame responded, "The aim has not been so much to fight the Congolese. It's to fight the ex-FAR [the remains of the genocide army] and Interahamwe [genocide militia...
Youth rebellions are old stories. But today's rebel has to figure out how to alienate today's been-there, smoked-that elders, so the Rude Boys aim straight at the squishy heart of baby-boom values. On the simplest level, this means offending boomer tolerance: there's Eminem; there's Mr. Wong, the animated series at Icebox.com about an elderly Chinese houseboy, which, depending on whom you ask, cleverly subverts or shamelessly perpetuates an ethnic stereotype. But these insurgents also attack the cult of self-esteem, the notion, advanced in the protest and therapy movements, that everyone has dignity...
Fortunately somebody is working on it. A handful of companies, notably twin goliaths Microsoft and Yahoo, have formed a coalition called IMUnified to attack the problem. Unfortunately AOL, which between ICQ and AIM controls 80% of the market, isn't part of the gang. That's what has the FCC's regulatory knickers in a knot...
...come AOL won't play with the other kids? AOL's spokespeople claim that AOL is committed to interoperability (as the IM geeks call it). Its AIM software is available free on the Net to any user who wants it, and AOL has readily licensed the technology to competitors. But the company argues that opening up its system could expose users to hackers and spam and other nastiness. IMUnified says that's bunk, that the technical questions are child's play ("My grandmother could implement interoperability"), and that AOL should get with the program...
Meanwhile, if you want to make sure everybody can reach you via IM, you will have to keep several IM programs running at once; you can also try a program called Odigo www.odigo.com) which connects to AIM, Yahoo and ICQ through a clever bit of hackery, though it's a hassle to use. Or you can do what I do: give up and just use AIM, because my friends...